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Why Talk Loud On A Cell Phone In A Coffee Shop?
"I was an asshole last night. Did I get laid? Yes." Thanks dude. Shut up.
"I was an asshole last night. Did I get laid? Yes." Thanks dude. Shut up.
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shut up, brooklyn
Times Shamefully Downplays Importance Of Hipster Kickballers
It's about time that the paper of record started covering the happenings in McCarren park, the ragged dirt patch that is home to the Brooklyn Hipster Kickball League, that den of sociological intrigue so ably chronicled by our own Sheila McClear. What with the legal drama and fundamental instances of human love associated with the hipster kickballers, it's no stretch to say that they are the demographic group most worthy of media coverage in NYC or anywhere else. But in an article today that is lightly reported to a comical degree, the Times attempts to deny the BHKL-ers their rightful place at the top of our minds!: More »
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Gossip Girl Invades Carroll Gardens, Olds Are Befuddled, Enraged
I was wandering the streets of Carroll Gardens (Brooklyn Heights' free-spirited sister) during a Bastille Day celebration last month, and there were people, tons of people!, wearing straw hats and frothy summer dresses and being languid and too cool for anything other than drinking in the summertime. And there I was, hungover as hell, tromping over from my—fine, I'll admit it—South Slope apartment, looking like a hobo wearing a pickle barrel. So it's heartening to hear, via our tips line, that some of those Smith Street whipsters (wealthy hipsters) are old and upset about... Gossip Girl! More »
New Neighborhood Lingo Alert: Billywick
Real estate folks made up terms like SoHo and TriBeCa in order to hype up undeveloped neighborhoods. But if you're not in real estate, you just sound like a jerk! In Time Out this week, two Bushwick roommates call their area of Brooklyn "Billywick or Bushburg. "You sound like an asshole when you say you’re from Williamsburg," says one. (Uh-oh. A casual Google search shows a couple MySpacers listing Billywick as their 'hood.) [Time Out]
Real estate folks made up terms like SoHo and TriBeCa in order to hype up undeveloped neighborhoods. But if you're not in real estate, you just sound like a jerk! In Time Out this week, two Bushwick roommates call their area of Brooklyn "Billywick or Bushburg. "You sound like an asshole when you say you’re from Williamsburg," says one. (Uh-oh. A casual Google search shows a couple MySpacers listing Billywick as their 'hood.) [Time Out]
shut up, brooklyn
Fort Greene Flea Market Is A War On Christianity
There's nothing like a flea market to bring out the religious sectarianism in people. Last night, the Queen of All Saints Church in Fort Greene held a meeting — the third of its kind — to discuss how the Brooklyn Flea was destroying the community. Racked's Paul Caine was there (he wasn't supposed to be; see picture) and reports that the issues before the house included the pile-up of garbage, parking and bathroom headaches, and the strange fact that Jews never seem to get inconvenienced on their days of rest. Kathleen Walsh, one church parishioner said: "Sunday is a very special day for us, [and] we look forward to that day. It is a day that has been impeded on by the commercialism and hubbub of the flea... I muse aloud, would such an entity be allowed across from a synagogue?" And then they came for the antiquers, and I did not speak because I wasn't an antiquer. More seething Bronze Age hatred couched in Brooklyn gentrification worries after the jump: More »
culture wars
L.A.: Give Brooklyn Your Tired, Your Poor, Your Weary...
Jay Babcock, former Los Angeles scenester and founder of the music/art mag Arthur, up and moved to Brooklyn recently. Why? "Culture in L.A. is in a race to the bottom, and all the smart and creative people there are [involved in] new ways to do social networking or figure out what YouTube video is going to get the most views. That isn’t culture, it’s pure pandering," he tells the L.A. Times today. Also: nobody in L.A. even noticed that he had moved: More »
Hipsters
Deep In The Heart Of Nilla Brooklyn
Bushwick, Brooklyn was once a minority neighborhood. Really! Recently, a bunch of hipsters have moved in there. But here's a secret: Bushwick is still a minority neighborhood. It even has ten separate housing projects, which are not full of whites! But Brooklyn's minorities are boring, because they're hardly on the cutting edge of art, culture, or cheap imported beer. So when Paper Magazine set out this month to answer the head-scratchingly inane question “Can the hipster ghettos of Brooklyn really replace Manhattan?", they took the logical step of including only the relevant people in the neighborhood: tattooed nilla hipsters. Check out these scans of the magazine's photo shoot and play "Guess the area's demographics": More »
crusades
Brooklynite Denied Iced Espresso, Media Firestorm Ensues
What does it take to get an executive from the freaking cable company royally pissed about customer service? How about a Washington, DC-area coffee shop that refused to serve him a simple. God. Damned. Iced. ESPRESSO? And that told him, "if you ever show your face at my shop, I'll punch you in your dick?" As you might imagine, a 32-year-old New Yorker subjected to such depravities in Arlington, VA or where-the-hell-ever does not simply swallow such BULL shit and move on — he blogs about it! Come read about this horrible thing that happened to Jeff "The Iceman" Simmermon, and how he got it onto Boing Boing, Metafilter, the Washington Post and, this morning, into the New York Post. More »
Politics
Dave Chappelle Fundraiser Turns Out Even Worse Than You Could Imagine
Bad news for Real World cast member-turned Congressional candidate (D-Pop Culture) Kevin Powell: Dave Chappelle totally spaced out on Powell's fundraiser in Brooklyn last night, costing him the crucial Chappelle-fan vote! The comedian was supposed to headline the fundraising show, but never appeared, possibly because he is crazy. Then Chris Rock refused to go on too, in solidarity! And it only got worse for Powell: a drunk journalist, for chrissake, tried to grab the mic and steal the show [UPDATE: And there's a video!]: More »
Whitman-World
Before we had to ask Brookyn to "shut up" due to an influx of preciousness, Jonathan Safran Foer, and five-dollar organic cookies, poet Walt Whitman lived there—way back in the 1850s. Whitman's Brooklyn shows you around his 'hood.
Brooklyn Blog Narcs On Crack House
"'At the end of the day, it was about putting aside anonymity, putting aside the HTML and physically showing up,' said Jason Miller, 37, the pet shop owner, better known to many as PetShopBoy, his login name on BayRidgeTalk.com." [Times]
"'At the end of the day, it was about putting aside anonymity, putting aside the HTML and physically showing up,' said Jason Miller, 37, the pet shop owner, better known to many as PetShopBoy, his login name on BayRidgeTalk.com." [Times]
One Full Pack Of Anything But Newports, Please
"In Bedford-Stuyvesant, a glitzy housing complex has risen in a neighborhood where cigarettes often get sold singly. It's a test of coexistence." Yuppies and loosies together? That'll be the day. [LAT]
"In Bedford-Stuyvesant, a glitzy housing complex has risen in a neighborhood where cigarettes often get sold singly. It's a test of coexistence." Yuppies and loosies together? That'll be the day. [LAT]
Julia Allison To Brooklyn?
She lost her $125k/year Star gig, now the protocelebrity is eyeing a low-rent borough: "I think I want to live in Brooklyn. I never thought I'd say that." [Julia Allison]
She lost her $125k/year Star gig, now the protocelebrity is eyeing a low-rent borough: "I think I want to live in Brooklyn. I never thought I'd say that." [Julia Allison]
Gentrification
Prepare To Be Robbed, IKEA Customers
The first-ever IKEA store is opening in the borough of Brooklyn tomorrow, a development which has the local media all atwitter. Close to 40 people have lined up for the chance to be the first ones in the rapidly gentrifying Red Hook neighborhood to buy mass-produced Swedish furniture. To celebrate the occasion, the gruff and hilarious Park Slope guy who goes by the name of Blognigger (just to make you uncomfortable) has posted his own Onion-esque take: "Red Hook Blacks Line Up to Rob First 100 IKEA Customers." But he doesn't forget to make the scheduled robberies a multicultural endeavor for the Curbed.com-reading gentrifiers themselves, too: More »
shut up, brooklyn
When a Hipster Bar Becomes a Prison
Seriously, how wasted do you have to be to get locked in a Williamsburg bar? Pretty wasted! "Really wasted but super nice," one of the Trophy Bar's bartenders tells the New York Times. Anyway, he passed out in the bathroom around 4a.m. and everyone went home. He called multiple people for help, but they were total assholes about it:More »
shut up, college
Find Stuff In the Park and Eat It
Since we're already on the subject of edibles today: Wesleyan, the official most annoying liberal arts school in the country, has a New York Club. They're having an "Urban Edibles in Prospect Park" event. Finding things on the ground and putting them in your mouth? Oberlin would never get that hippie-ish. Click for the flyer! More »
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